"approved association" means any association or body declared by the Minister to be the approved association pursuant to subsection (6) of section 14;

[6/1962 s 2(a).]

"coffee product" means any article the principal constituent of which is coffee;

"coffee works" means any plant, machinery, appliances, mills or apparatus, whether similar to the foregoing or not, and any premises, used for the curing, drying, pulping, washing, cleaning, processing or preparation for sale of any coffee berries or for the manufacture of any coffee product;

"nominated member" means a person appointed a member of the Board by the Minister from a panel of coffee growers;

[6/1962 s 2(b).]

"nursery" means any nursery for the cultivation of coffee plants or coffee seedlings;

"panel of coffee growers" means a panel of five persons actively engaged in the growing of coffee nominated from time to time and as the occasion requires by the approved association and from which nominated members may be appointed.

[6/1962 s 2(c).]

3 Establishment and incorporation of the Board

There is hereby established a body corporate which shall be known as the Coffee Industry Board which shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and which may sue and be sued in its own name.

4 General duties of Board

The Board shall-

(a) do all such acts as may lawfully be done, or but for the provisions of this Act might lawfully have been done, by any individual which the Board having due regard to the financial resources at its disposal may consider most expedient for the encouragement and development of the coffee industry in Jamaica and for the promotion of the welfare of persons engaged in that industry;

(b) upon being required so to do by the Minister, make recommendations to the Minister as to any matter directly or indirectly selecting, relating to or connected with the coffee industry or persons engaged in that industry;

(c) perform such other duties in relation to or connected with the coffee industry or persons engaged in that industry as the Minister may require to be performed by the Board.

5 Powers of Board in relation to property

The Board may in its absolute discretion-

(a) acquire by purchase, exchange, gift, devise or in any other manner, whether similar to the fore-going or not, any estate or interest or rights or encumbrances in, over or upon any real property and lease or rent any land and hold any estate, interest, rights or encumbrances in, over or upon any real property so acquired or any land so leased or rented; and

(b) mortgage, charge, sell, exchange, surrender, give away or dispose of in any manner, whether similarto the foregoing or not, any estate, interest, right or encumbrance in, over or upon any real property held by the Board and create any estate or interest, right or encumbrance in, over or upon any real property so held by the Board and grant leases of or rent any land so held; and

(c) acquire by purchase, barter, gift, bequest or in any other manner, whether similar to the fore-going or not, any personal property and rent or accept the bailment (whether for reward or otherwise) of any personal property and hold any personal property so acquired, rented or bailed; and

(d) sell, barter, exchange, charge, pledge, give away or dispose of in any manner, whether similar to the foregoing or not, and lend, rent or bail (whether for reward or otherwise) any personal property so held by the Board,

as fully and effectually as if the Board were an individual of full age and not under disability.

6 Special powers of board

Without prejudice to the generality of any other power Special conferred by or under this Act and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any regulations under this Act, the Board may in its absolute discretion-

(d) cultivate, dry, cure, pulp, clean, wash or process in any other manner any coffee berries and manufacture any coffee product and purchase, prepare for market, store, transport, distribute, sell or export any coffee berries or any coffee product; and